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1790 Pres Washington delivers 1st "State of the Union"

1884 Last sighting of an eastern cougar (Ontario)

1885 Dr W W Grant of Iowa, performs 1st appendectomy (on Mary Gartside, 22)

1887 Thomas Stevens is 1st man to bicycle around the world (SF-SF)

1893 US pres Cleveland grants amnesty to Mormon polygamy

1920 1st Black baseball league, National Negro Baseball League, organizes

1925 French psychologist Emil Couâeš brings his self-esteem therapy to US "Every day in every way I am getting better & better"

1954 Elvis Presley records a 10 minute demo in Nashville

1960 Nobel Prize-winning French author Albert Camus died in a car accident at age 46.



1965 LBJ's "Great Society" State of the Union Address

1974 President Richard Nixon refused to hand over tape recordings and documents subpoenaed by the Senate Watergate Committee.

2007 Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., became the first female speaker of the House.